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Best Value Physical Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island

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2023 Best Value Physical Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$16,322 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Physical Sciences Graduate Certificate School for You

With 111 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, physical sciences is the #12 most popular major in Rhode Island.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Value Physical Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Physical Sciences Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Physical Sciences Graduate Certificate School

Our 2023 rankings named University of Rhode Island the best value school in Rhode Island for physical sciences students working on their graduate certificate. URI is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Kingston.

URI graduate students pay an average of $16,322 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

URI also took the #5 spot in our Best Physical Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island rankings.

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Best Value Physical Sciences Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Value Physical Sciences Schools in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 559
Connecticut 253
New Hampshire 62
Maine 19
Vermont 12

Physical Sciences Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Chemistry 5,005
Physics 3,727
Geological & Earth Sciences 2,491
Materials Sciences 448
Astronomy & Astrophysics 371
Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology 342
Other Physical Science 191
General Physical Sciences 107
Physics and Astronomy 23

Majors Similar to Physical Sciences

Related Major Annual Graduates
Engineering 61,791
Computer & Information Sciences 60,971
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 28,851
Mathematics & Statistics 15,127
Engineering Technologies 7,672

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to NASA.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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